Rafael Nadal: Dominant Defending Champion Too Good to Fall in French Open

Rafael Nadal lost only two games in his fourth-round demolition of Juan Monaco. The No. 2 player in the world made the 13th-ranked player look like a JV substitute on the red clay of Roland Garros, and this is nothing new.

The six-time French Open champion has lost only 19 games throughout the first four rounds of the tournament and is slated to battle fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro in the quarterfinals.

The 12th-seeded Almagro upset No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic in the fourth round and hasn't lost a set yet in this tournament either.

Almagro has never defeated Nadal before, and it is highly unlikely that it will start now. The clay genius has lost only one match at the French Open in the last seven years, and that includes remarkable runs by the likes of Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer in nearly every other Grand Slam.

And then there's Andy Murray, the 25-year-old Brit who has never advanced past the semifinals at Roland Garros.

Nadal defeated Murray in straight sets of last year's French Open semifinal and we can expect much of the same this year. The Spaniard isn't just on point, but he's on point at the one place where he is already virtually unbeatable.

Nobody at Roland Garros has been able to test Nadal to this point, and we shouldn't expect that to change.

Barring some unforeseen insanity, Nadal is well on his way to a record-breaking seventh French Open title.